Re: [boost] The problems with Boost development

Subject: Re: [boost] The problems with Boost development
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-19 11:49:29

Daniel James wrote:

> On 19 March 2010 08:14, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>  So, I would like to ask that everybody
>> who is somehow involved in *development* -- whether in writing code, triaging bugs,
>> sending patches, or managing thing, list three most important problems with Boost now.
> 
> I'll reply to this properly later, I just want to say that we should
> also take into account the difficultly we cause distributions. I was
> surprised to see us mentioned alongside much more high profile
> projects here:
> 
> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/290
> 
> But I don't think it was a complement. We didn't pay much attention to
> this post at the time, but probably should have:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/196669

That is unfortunately a completely different set of problems. On one hand,
we have problems that are perceived on the developing side. On another hand,
we have problems on the using side -- where lack of any API or ABI stability
is surely an important concern -- but solving that concern actually requires
more work from developers, and even, I think, more centralization. There's
no doubt Debian folks or any other packagers will not be happy about 90 libraries
on a separate release schedule.

- Volodya